What's the difference between circuit and shunt?

Circuit


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun.
  • (n.) The circumference of, or distance round, any space; the measure of a line round an area.
  • (n.) That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
  • (n.) The space inclosed within a circle, or within limits.
  • (n.) A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.
  • (n.) A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice.
  • (n.) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.
  • (n.) Circumlocution.
  • (v. i.) To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
  • (v. t.) To travel around.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
  • (2) Hypertrophy is restricted to subdivisions of the inferior olive included in recurrent cerebello-mesencephalic-olivary circuits.
  • (3) The ability of autoregulate blood flow in the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) circuit is critical to prevent cavitation and air embolism.
  • (4) To explain some of these results a theoretical model is presented to demonstrate that while short circuiting can block the passive ionic movement, it will cause an increase in the energy consumption of the system and introduce certain important changes in the ionic barriers and e.m.fs.
  • (5) DNase I microspheres were then introduced into the extracorporeal circuit which resulted in an acceleration of degradation of acid precipitable 125I-nDNA.
  • (6) A wide range of development possibilities for the printed circuit microelectrode are discussed.
  • (7) Our results were consistent with the modern anesthesia standard in closed circuit t.i.
  • (8) One hour after terminating the extacorporeal circuit, the C.O.P.
  • (9) These effects are not accompanied by significant changes in the transmural electrical potential difference or short-circuit current.
  • (10) Evidence is reviewed suggesting that this latter system may involve a corticostriatal circuit.
  • (11) Several attempts at circuit interruption of type 1 atrial flutter by means of surgical or catheter techniques have been published.
  • (12) To eliminate pacing stimulus afterpotential and detect an evoked response, a hardware feedback circuit and a software template matching algorithm were used to produce a triphasic charge-balanced pacing pulse.
  • (13) Four blood filters included in the extracorporeal circuit were removed one by one at 30-minute intervals.
  • (14) In the ECMO patient, cardiac stun syndrome and electromechanical dissociation can be confused with low circuit volume, pneumothorax, or cardiac tamponade.
  • (15) The transport system was analyzed in terms of an equivalent circuit model comprising a proton motive force (PMF), an active conductance (LH) in series with the pump, and a parallel or passive conductance which may be ignored in this preparation.
  • (16) The type 3 pattern occurred when the antidromic wavefront of early premature beats captured the original circuit exit.
  • (17) Polymethacrylate coated charcoal was inserted in the dialysis circuit before the dialyzer.
  • (18) Since our system is adjusted with square waveforms and composed of a simple analog circuit, it can be compensated easily in real time.
  • (19) The circuit training exercise program, therefore, appears to be an effective method for improving the fitness level of alcoholic patients.
  • (20) Thus, neurons of the habenula and interpeduncular nucleus are under the direct and indirect influence of septal neurons within the limbic forebrain circuit.

Shunt


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To shun; to move from.
  • (v. t.) To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.
  • (v. t.) To turn off to one side; especially, to turn off, as a grain or a car upon a side track; to switch off; to shift.
  • (v. t.) To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.
  • (v. i.) To go aside; to turn off.
  • (v. t.) A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.
  • (v. t.) A conducting circuit joining two points in a conductor, or the terminals of a galvanometer or dynamo, so as to form a parallel or derived circuit through which a portion of the current may pass, for the purpose of regulating the amount passing in the main circuit.
  • (v. t.) The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One patient with a large fistula angiographically had no oximetric evidence of shunt at cardiac catheterization.
  • (2) However, survival was closely related to the severity of the illness at the time of randomization and was not altered by shunting.
  • (3) Results showed significantly higher cardiac output in infants with grade III shunting than in infants with grade 0 and grade I shunting.
  • (4) Direct limiting effects of hypothermia on tissue O2 delivery and muscle oxidative metabolism as well as vasoconstriction and arteriovenous shunting associated with CPB procedures are likely to be involved in the above mentioned alterations of cell metabolism.
  • (5) Eighty interposition mesocaval shunts, using a knitted Dacron large diameter prosthesis, have been performed during the past five and one-half years.
  • (6) An infant with a Sturge-Weber variant syndrome developed progressive megalencephaly and eventual hydrocephalus, which required shunting.
  • (7) The use of 100% oxygen to calculate intrapulmonary shunting in patients on PEEP is misleading in both physiological and methodological terms.
  • (8) Airway closure (CV), functional residual capacity (FRC) and the distribution of inspired gas (nitrogen washout delay percentage, NWOD %) and arterial oxygen tension (PaO2) was measured by standard electrodes in eight extremely obese patients before and after weight loss (mean weights 142 and 94 kg, respectively) following intestinal shunt operation.
  • (9) Quantitative autoradiography was used to assess the densities of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABAA) receptors in the brains of rats with a portacaval end-to-side shunt (PCA).
  • (10) We currently recommend a standard portacaval shunt or a devascularisation and transection procedure for the rare failures of sclerotherapy.
  • (11) The other 7 cysts required the subsequent placement of a cystoperitoneal shunt.
  • (12) It is suggested that the benefit of anticoagulant therapy is in transferring shunt problems from the distal to the proximal catheter, obstruction of which is less dangerous and more easily treated.
  • (13) On angiography portal-hepatic venous shunt was observed in one case.
  • (14) The technique described involves placement of an intraluminal shunt and resection of the involved caval wall with reconstruction using autologous pericardium.
  • (15) Shunt-related morbidity occurred in all patients and consisted of mechanical complications in four patients and bacteremia in one patient.
  • (16) Mycobacterium fortuitum is a rare cause of central nervous system infection; however, shunt infection caused by this organism has not been reported.
  • (17) Thus, these data establish a range of normal for the indocyanine green technique of detecting and measuring intracardiac left-to-right shunting.
  • (18) This was documented by angiography and during surgery when an aortic-pulmonary shunt was done.
  • (19) Two new cases of megaduodenum by aortomesenteric shunt in young adults are presented.
  • (20) In the other cases cavernosogram revealed normal venous return and thrombosis of the shunt.